Art And Culture

The Cockpit Theater in London is hosting a performance of Persian traditional music today, June 25, where masters of Iranian classical music will play and sing for Londoners.

The newly established aviation company, Dena Airlines, has launched a logo contest.

The company has invited all graphic designers to the competition and will give a prize of 150 million…

Ten new art galleries in Tehran received permits from the Visual Arts Department of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.

The permits were issued in the past three months, Azad News…

Martin McDonagh’s black comedy ‘The Lonesome West’ will go on stage from June 28 at Niavaran Cultural Center in Tehran.

‘Lonesome West,’ the third and final part of ‘The Leenane Trilogy’…

Teymour Qaderi, a young Kurdish filmmaker from Kamyaran, in the province of Kurdistan, has been selected as ‘Intercultural Leader’ by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC).

Critically acclaimed Iranian playwright, theater and film director Bahram Beyzai has received the Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

The prizes, awards…

The well-known Abidi Pharmaceutical Company based in Tehran has commissioned film director Seyed Vahid Hosseini to make a documentary about the founder of the company.

“I am currently…

The Austrian-Iranian Symphonic Orchestra (AISO) will perform in honor of acclaimed artist Parviz Tanavoli, at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on July 3 and 5.

The exhibition ‘Copy/Paste’ of artworks by artists based in Berlin, opened in Isfahan on Friday, June 23, in a bid to introduce new forms of contemporary art to Iranians.

Curated by Iranian…

A new edition of the German translation of ‘Kelidar,’ written by the celebrated Iranian writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in Persian and translated by the late German-Iranian translator Sigrid Lotfi, has…

The Book Garden, located in the Abasabad Hills in north Tehran, will officially open on July 3, after its inauguration was postponed several times.

“All sections of the project will be…

Actor and theater director Hassan Majouni, 49, has brought on stage an adaptation from ‘Incident with a Metranpazh,’ a 1968 play by Russian playwright Alexander Vampilov (1937-1972).

It…

A total of 752 films by foreign directors have been submitted to the upcoming 6th International Urban Film Festival in Tehran. Spain has the highest number of participants (222 films) at the…

Iranian-Assyrian writer, translator and radio presenter Albert Kouchoui, 74, received the First Degree Art Certificate in performing arts from the evaluation council of the Ministry of Culture and…

A week before Eid al-Fitr on June 26, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, three new films have hit cinemas across Iran to help increase the box-office which saw a decline during Ramadan…

Paolo Venturini, 49, an Italian runner and adventurer who took part in the Silk Road Ultra-Marathon held last year in the province of Kerman, is planning to return and set a Guinness world record…

Iranian filmmaker Yaser Talebi has won the award for best director of a short documentary at the 3rd International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema NICE, in France, for his film ‘The Iron Dream…

Iranian pianist Soroush Zali and Polish violinist Katarzyna Feiner are to perform a duet at Niavaran Cultural Center in Tehran on July 25.

The violin & piano duet will cover Opus 137…

Shiraz, the capital of Fars Province, will host the first International Academic Congress on Culture, Languages and Literature (ICCLL 2017), in Iran.

The seminar is slated for July 21 and…

Despite the review of a book before its release, "various unpredictable factors contribute to its marketability," says Yousef Alikhani, manager of Aamout publishing house in Tehran.

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The play 'The Story of the Panda Bears' written by Romanian-French playwright, poet and journalist Matei Visniec in 1994, and directed by Iranian theater director Shiva Ordui will be staged from…

Prolific screenwriter, playwright and mythologist Naghmeh Samini will conduct a master class on playwriting.

Porsesh Institute of political-economic studies, based in Tehran, will host the…

An exhibition of postcard art, with paintings on one side and a note on the other that encourages dialogue between artists and buyers, is currently underway at Azad Art Gallery in Tehran.

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Young musician Reza Tajbakhsh is preparing his first album in which he has produced the music and sung as well, to be released by the end of the current Persian year in March 2018.

The cinematheque of Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) in Tehran will review some of the best works of the popular actor Akbar Abdi for a week.

A total of seven movies will be screened at a…